Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

DdraigGoch

and, presumably, oiling your shotgun!

sb44

Well the way things are going now I think more people may be thinking about stocking up just to have extra food in case the sh*t hits fan!

'And, as in the 1980s, store extra food. Balls voiced the growing fear of social unrest, which is more probable the longer the crisis continues.

I am not suggesting boarding up your front windows, just buying a little more in case of shortages. It may seem ridiculously early to hoard, but it could very quickly become too late. '

As per: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/investment/article5732533.ece

Asheron

Beef jerkey! Make it yourself!

Cleaver

themanbearpig wrote: »

Will be interesting to read this thread in exactly a years time. Either we can look back and laugh at people like dopster that planned for the end, or the internet will be cut off to help slow down the revolution, and we will be fighting for survival in the streets.
I'm still not sure what it will be?

Well, here we are a year later. My internet still appears to be working and I've just checked out the window and... yes, I can confirm that people still be appearing to be going about their business with very minimal fighting for survival going on.

Ahh well. Presumably all this has just been delayed because of QE and low interest rates though?

JonnyBravo

Cleaver wrote: »

Ahh well. Presumably all this has just been delayed because of QE and low interest rates though?

More likely to be because of a few inches of snow :rolleyes:

zygurat789

No it was a useful planning exercise for when global warming really bites.
Money will be useless the only currency will be food

StevieJ

zygurat789 wrote: »

No it was a useful planning exercise for when global warming really bites.
Money will be useless the only currency will be food

Not a good day to mention that

chucky

what a stupid thread - is this one of white horses?

Mr.Brown_4

What is a shame is those people who can't afford to stock up on food without putting yet more debt onto their credit cards.

Ouch.

Tick, tock.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Cleaver wrote: »

people still be appearing to be going about their business with very minimal fighting for survival going on.

Ahh well. Presumably all this has just been delayed because of QE and low interest rates though?

Just you wait!!!!!!

When we get 4 million unemployed, interest rates at 15%, Dow at 2500, millions of reposessions, 70% falls in house prices, a gilt strike, the Tories shutting down public services, baked bean shortages, and plague and pestilence.......

And all by Xmas 2009, ummmm no, by Xmas 2010..... (or maybe Xmas 2011, or 2012)

It'll be Bearmageddon!!!!!